…It is heartwarming to see how 70 years later, we are still moved by the flag, the national anthem, the coinage, postal stamps, hummus and falafel, by traditional “biblical” leather sandals; it’s as if the young nation just came into being. As if our blue and white were still a vision. Seventy years on, we still wonder not only at our economic, urban, agricultural and cultural development, but also at our sovereignty over the Promised Land. We are privileged to live in the generation that so many others dreamed about. We are living the dream.READ MORE

JNS.ORG 70 years of miracles What happened in 1948, and in the years that followed, caused every Jew in the world—whether religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist—to stand a little taller.